Out of 42 million living with AIDS worldwide at the end of 2002, 29.5 million were from Sub-Saharan Africa. Of the 5 million people newly infected with HIV in 2002, 3.5 million were from Sub ...

Talking about “AIDS in Africa” obscures more than it illuminates, argues the ONE Campaign in a big new report released today, ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. ONE shows how there is wide ...

But none carry the urgency of the appeals to seriously confront the AIDS dilemma in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than 60 percent of the 40 million people infected with HIV worldwide.

The latest news on AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, the epidemic’s epicenter, is good.New HIV infections have declined by 25 percent since 2001, AIDS-related deaths have decreased by 32 percent over ...

ADDIS ABABA - African leaders and partners have joined together at a high-level event on the sidelines of the 36th Session of the African Union to commit to a set of actions to boost progress toward ...

AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa.1 Twenty-five million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are HIV-positive, with adult infection rates ranging from 1.35% in Niger to 35.8% in Botswana.2 ...

To strengthen their AIDS-fighting efforts, 14 nations in Africa and the Caribbean have been targeted for funding through the AIDS initiative that President Bush unveiled earlier this year.

JAKARTA -- When Indonesian movie star Nurul Arifin speaks to community groups about HIV and AIDS, she aims to shock: She slips a condom over a prosthetic penis and explains in slang-laced language ...